Originally published November 28 2007
and...(click to see article below this one)
by Mike Adams
The end of Free Speech in America has arrived at our doorstep. It's a new law
called the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act,
and it is worded in a clever way that could allow the U.S. government to arrest
and incarcerate any individual who speaks out against the Bush Administration,
the war on Iraq, the Department of Homeland Security or any government agency
(including the FDA). The law has already passed the House on a traitorous vote
of 405 to 6, and it is now being considered in the Senate where a vote is
imminent. All over the internet, intelligent people who care about freedom are
speaking out against this extremely dangerous law:
Philip Giraldi at the Huffington Post,
Declan McCullagh at CNET's News.com,
Kathryn Smith at OpEdNews.com, and of course
Alex Jones at PrisonPlanet.com
This bill is the beginning of the end of Free Speech in America. If it passes,
all the information sources you know and trust could be shut down and their
authors imprisoned. NewsTarget could be taken offline and I could be arrested as
a "terrorist." Jeff Rense at
www.Rense.com
could be labeled a "terrorist" and arrested. Byron Richards, Len Horowitz, Paul
Craig Roberts, Greg Palast, Ron Paul and even Al Gore could all be arrested,
silenced and incarcerated. This is not an exaggeration. It is a literal reading
of the law, which you can check yourself here:
http://thomas.loc.gov/home/gpoxmlc110/h1955_rfs.xml
The bill states:
‘...ideologically based violence’ means the use, planned use, or threatened
use of force or violence by a group or individual to promote the group or
individual’s political, religious, or social beliefs...
Note that this means the "planned use of force to promote a political or social
belief" would be considered an act of terrorism. This all hinges on the
definition of "force," of course. Based on the loose use of logic in Washington
these days, and the slippery interpretation of the meaning of words, "force"
could mean:
• A grassroots campaign to barrage Congress with faxes
• A non-violent street protest
• A letter-writing campaign that deluges the Senate with too much mail
• A sit-in protest that blocks access to a business or organization
• A grassroots e-mail campaign that overloads the e-mail servers of any
government department or agency
You get the idea. "Force" could be defined as practically anything. And since
the "planned use of force" would be considered a criminal act of terrorism,
anyone who simply thinks about a grassroots action campaign would be
engaged in terrorist acts.
If you stopped someone on the street and handed them a Bible, for example, this
could be considered an act of terrorism ("...use of force to promote the
individual's religious beliefs...")
If you sent a barrage of angry letters to Washington about global warming and
the destruction of the environment by the U.S. military, this could also be
considered an act of terrorism ("...to promote the individual's political
beliefs...")
If you believe in same-sex marriage and you wrote a letter threatning a sit-in
protest in front of your state's capitol building, this could also be considered
an act of terrorism, even if you never carried it out! ("...planned use of force
to promote a social belief...")
The United States is on the fast track to fascism, and the Congress is
working right alongside this nation's traitorous leaders to criminalize any
thoughts, words or speeches that disagree with current government policies
regarding war, terrorism, domestic surveillance and civil liberties. Simply
speaking out against the war on Iraq could soon be labeled a crime. Merely
thinking thoughts against the war on Iraq could be considered a criminal
act.
There's a video lecture you simply MUST watch.
It's by Naomi Wolf, author of The End of America. She covers this topic
with great elegance and a deep understanding of history. See her video on
YouTube at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjALf12PAWc
Click here to see her book on Amazon.com.
In her lecture and book, Naomi reveals the ten steps to fascist, then
reveals how the United States of America is pursuing all ten! This S.1959
legislation, the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act,
represents one of the ten steps to achieve a fascist state!
It is designed to squash all opposition to the State's ongoing march towards
blatant fascism, where secret police and secret prisons dominate the law
enforcement landscape, stripping U.S. citizens of all civil liberties and
Constitutional protections.
Thoughtcrimes are about to become a reality in the United States of America, and
Congress is pushing this through as quickly as possible so that each individual
member of Congress can claim that he or she is "against terrorism." But this
bill doesn't merely target terrorism: It targets anyone who speaks or even
thinks thoughts against the U.S. federal government.
With this bill, the U.S. government is officially labeling the People of the
United States as criminals. It is drawing a line in the sand and stating that
from now on, it's the Government vs. the People.
If we don't stop this bill from becoming law, we are lost as a nation.
There is no turning back from tyranny once the government turns its own citizens
into criminals, enforcing only the thoughts, ideas, words and speeches that it
approves or tolerates. Everything is at stake here!
If you live in the U.S., it is urgent that you
call your senators right now and voice your strong opposition against this
extremely dangerous law.
Here are the phone numbers for the U.S. Senate switchboard:
1-877-851-6437
1-800-833-6354
1-888-355-3588
1-866-220-0044
1-866-808-0065
1-877-762-8762
1-866-340-9281
1-800-862-5530
How to do this:
1) Make sure you know the names of your Senators.
2) Call the U.S. Senate switchboard using one of the numbers above.
3) Ask to speak to the offices of your Senators.
4) Tell them you are strongly opposed to S. 1959, the Violent Radicalization and
Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act
5) Ask for their fax number.
6) Follow up your phone call with a written, signed letter that you fax to your
Senators.
Stopping this bill from becoming law is the single most important thing all
Americans can do right now. If this becomes law, all free speech about health
freedom, the crimes of the FDA, the crimes of the Bush Administration, America's
role in global warming and any other topics could all be criminalized. YOU could
be labeled a terrorist, kidnapped by government thugs, taken from your home,
thrown in a secret prison, denied access to legal representation, denied due
process and essentially "disappeared" into a system of such corruption and evil
that it now begins to blatantly mirror Nazi Germany.
Think it couldn't happen here? It's happening right now! This is
exactly how it happened in Nazi Germany. First, burn the Reichstag and
blame it on the "enemy." Pass new police state laws. Disarm the people. Spread
fear. Erect secret prisons and secret police. Call anyone who disagrees with you
a "traitor." Control the mainstream media. Sound familiar? This is all happening
right now in the United States of Amerika, and if we don't work to stop it, this
nation will rapidly devolve into a fascist police state where no one is truly
free.
We are but a few small steps away from it right now. All it would take is one
dirty bomb in a major U.S. city. Bush would declare Martial Law and take over
the National Guard. Troops on the streets. Anyone who writes a blog against the
government would be arrested. Authors of "alternative" books would be kidnapped
and have their books burned on the street. It could all happen at the stroke of
a pen. The infrastructure for tyranny is in place right now, just waiting to be
invoked.
How can we fight back against this onslaught of
tyranny? We must use what remaining free speech freedoms we have right now to
alert our fellow citizens to what's happening. We must rise up and tell the
truth while urging our representatives in Washington to resist the temptation to
vote for more "anti-terrorism" legislation that only works to enslave the
American people.
We must use our phones, faxes, emails and blogs to rally our friends, family
members and anyone who will listen to oppose these police state laws, and we
must organize mass (peaceful) protests against this government that is
attempting to marginalize the rights and freedoms of our People.
We must not be lulled into a sense of false security by the purveyors of hatred
and fear -- the Sean Hannitys, Rush Limbaughs and Bill O'Reillys of the world.
Instead, we must listen to the voices of freedom. In terms of the upcoming
election for U.S. President, there is only one candidate that actually believes
in freedom: Ron Paul. He needs your support to win:
www.RonPaul2008.com
All the other candidates are nothing more than tyrants of different political
affiliations. Ron Paul is the only candidate that truly understands the
fundamentals of freedom. That's why he's the only real choice for our next
President. Can you imagine what Hillary Clinton would do with the police state
powers that Bush has now created? That's the danger of all laws that centralize
power in Washington: It's not necessarily what today's President will
do with them, but what some future President will do with them.
That's why it's never good enough to say, "Well, we intend to only apply these
laws to terrorists and not to U.S. citizens at home." That may be the intention
right NOW, but virtually all such laws creep into areas of enforcement for which
they were never intended. Just look at the application of RICO laws which were
originally designed to fight organized crime operations but are now applied to
virtually anyone (and yet they are never applied to Big Pharma, which operates
almost exactly like organized crime!). All these anti-terrorism laws run the
danger of expanding in enforcement to the point where they are applied against
the People of this country. At first, it's only illegal for "terrorists" to
think thought crimes, but before long, it's illegal for anyone to think
those same thoughts. That when the domestic arrests of authors, journalists,
bloggers and thought leaders will kick off, and the country will plunge itself
into outright tyrannical fascism.
Again, we're on the track right now. This is happening, folks. You're LIVING
through an amazing chapter of history right now. You're actually witnessing the
downfall of a free nation and the rise of a superpower fascist state. You're
actually part of it.
When it's all over, will you look back and realize you did nothing? Or will you
now take a stand against tyranny and oppose these dangerous laws and lawmakers
who threaten the Constitutional freedoms of you and your children?
by
Jeff Knaebel
by Jeff
Knaebel
The (American) "security organs" can designate and kill as they see fit
"Solicitor General Ted Olson has described the process: 'There is no requirement
for the executive branch to spell out its criteria for who qualifies as an
illegal combatant. There will be judgments and instincts and evaluations and
implementations made by the executive that are going to be different from day to
day, depending on the circumstances.'"
"In other words, what is safe to say today, might imperil your freedom or your
life tomorrow. You can never know if you are on the right side of the law,
because the 'law' is merely whim of the leader and his minions: their
'instincts' determine your guilt or innocence, and these gut 'feelings' can
change from day to day. This is now, formally and officially, the guiding
principle of the United States government. And underlying this edifice of
tyranny is the prerogative of presidential murder."
"Perhaps the enormity of this monstrous perversion of law and morality has kept
it from being fully comprehended. It sounds unbelievable to most people. But
that is our reality. To overcome what seems to be widespread cognitive
dissonance, we need only examine the publicly available record. There is nothing
that any ordinary citizen could not know ? if they choose to know it."
"Bush signed orders allowing CIA assassins to kill targets without seeking
presidential approval. Nor is it necessary any longer for the president to
approve new names added to the target list?the 'security organs' can designate
and kill as they see fit. There is no way of knowing how many people have been
killed by American agents operating outside judicial process. Most of the
assassinations are carried out in secret: quietly, professionally? the death
squads are able to operate clandestinely, using a full range of official and
non-official cover arrangements to enter countries surreptitiously." ? Chris
Floyd,
truthout.org,
2 October 2006
George W. Bush: "God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck at them, and
then He instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did ?" ? as reported by
Palestinian leaders to whom Bush spoke after the Iraq invasion.
There you have it, folks. In a nutshell, the quotes above tell us our place in
the system: do as you are told, or we will kill you. The rest is all detail. One
nuance of history might be highighted for the reader. The men who possess these
powers of life and death have rather consistently exhibited patterns of
psychopathic behavior in the form of mass murder and torture. In addition to
Bush, Hitler and Lenin quoted above, you might consider, among recent others,
Mussolini, Stalin, Truman, Mao, Suharto. The list continues ad nauseam
throughout history. Hierarchical power structures appear to be an evolutionary
dead end for humanity.
My Experiential Observations of Power (abridged)
I've served my country in foreign war zones and returned to face the derision of
protestors whom I was supposedly "protecting." I rotated myself from resentment
to an understanding that they were correct. My friend who had chained himself to
other war protestors while they burned their draft cards was a braver man than
I.
For them it had worked. Neither conscripted nor prosecuted, they were too hot to
handle. I have arrived at a deep respect for the moral competence and physical
courage of my young friend. Nonviolence is not for cowards.
I saw "over there" some of the same big construction contractors who, after
merger and consolidation, are now gorging on Iraq war profits. I recall a naval
leadership journal which carried photos of a French tank mired in a rice paddy
circa 1948, alongside a photo of an American tank mired in a rice paddy circa
1968. Paired images of a killing field, stalked hyena-like by cold-blooded
central bankers and their political consorts. The dead are but abstractions
reported to a balance sheet as corporate dividends. Political payoffs are
footnoted as "other expenses."
Today we are viewing the updated remix as "Shock and Awe"
murder-of-every-living-thing-from-a-safe-distance. It would pound the earth
itself into submissive dust on the Emperor's shoes. An imperialist gone mad in
its greed for oil, for corporate dividends, for unlimited power, its mass murder
spares not woman nor child nor cow. The revolving door of power brokers rotating
between government-defense contracting-banking leads to the same bloody dead
end, generation after generation.
Of Power, this much I know from experience both over and under:
The battle is for the mind of man.
The prize is no longer in vanquishing some "other." The battle is either all
against all or all for all. There is no "other" to conquer. We are all in it
together. We either grow a garden together or we cannibalize each other in the
course of turning the earth into a desert. We can either plant trees together,
or race to be the last person standing to cut down the last tree.
ORGANIZATIONAL DYNAMICS OF THE STATE
The State as an organization keeps on running with periodic changes of
management called elections. Because of its ability to make laws and impose
taxes, its power is limited only by the tolerance of the people for their
exploitation. The State can coerce its members without reciprocal consequences.
It operates without fear of reprisal. It can use aggressive force to make others
do things against their will. Its "managers" are protected by sovereign
immunity. Because it both rules and taxes, it suffers no agency costs for its
errors: it simply shifts the cost to taxpayers.
The US is not a contractual State in the sense of an organization owned by
its principals, the citizens. It has become a predatory State in the sense of a
corporation owned and operated by a small group. This evolution was made
inevitable by the weaknesses of the Constitution and actions of the power
brokers and legislature. Rozeff (3 August 2006) estimates that the top
management group of USA comprises between 15 and 60 members. These members
rotate in revolving door fashion between and among various centers of social and
political power. The figureheads and mouthpieces ? the Kennedys, Nixons,
Clintons, Bushes ? are all fungible, each can be replaced by another without
perturbing the system. In this manner do elections always come to a choice
between two morally indistinguishable candidates. Likewise, no matter who you
vote for, the political establishment always gets elected.
A few dozen people control the vast bureaucracies. The State's power depends
upon holding the loyalty and obedience of these career employees within the
power structure. This is done by passing out special privileges and emoluments.
Napoleon noted the amazing lust of men for awards and decorations. The final
tool in the arsenal of control is to heap honors upon those who have been
corrupted.
M.S. Rozeff (see Lew Rockwell website) argues that the State lowers the cost of
immorality, and people subsequently demand more State. Those who do occasionally
resist face an "immortal" foe that owns the law-making power. People will
rationalize their greater demand for immorality with new ideas of right and
wrong. Giving up liberty in exchange, they will come to worship authority,
equality, the use of force, and power. They will move away from self-reliance,
responsibility, obligation to elders and the disadvantaged of society. They will
accept, even enjoy their new situation. The State corrupts social morals and
human beings.
The State Corrodes the Moral Fabric of Society
Rozeff continues with a logical listing of how the State weakens society.
He discusses how the State
maintains power. Although the rulers make some attempt to rationalize their
costs of dominating society, given the Central Bank's power to print money,
there is little incentive for cost control. Furthermore, it is always other
people's money. Need more money for more bombs? Just crank up the printing press
? and rob the people with the silent tax of inflation. Some of the means in
current practice are here excerpted and adapted from M.S. Rozeff:
The Methods of Domination
The goal of power acting through the State is to increase its domination of
society. This requires aggression against society which the citizens may at some
point resist, often because of the economic burdens imposed to support power.
Power does nothing economically productive ? it is a parasite. There is an
incentive to fool the people, who greatly outnumber the power elite. There are
incentives to improve the technology of domination and to raise the costs for
citizens to mobilize any resistance. A few of the many means of domination are
listed:
The Mind Game of Sovereign Immunity
In a Parliamentary or Congressional legislative system, the real goal of its
members is to enrich themselves and their clients. Our human energy applied to
natural resources produces "income." Congress imposes taxes to take as much as
the people will tolerate without revolt. Owning the income stream is tantamount
to owning the person. In this way, it can be said that Congress owns us.
The State declares war against people with whom we have no quarrel and who are
no threat. It enters international trade agreements, imposes economic sanctions
on selected self-created "enemies," it regulates labor, commerce, the content of
our food, the materials in our homes, the water we drink, the air we breathe,
the education of our children, the price of milk, the crops we grow and the
fields we lie fallow. After deduction for the part of our labor owned by the
government, there is very little left over for ourselves.
The constitution bequeathed monopoly powers to the central government. The
powers to tax and regulate can destroy any citizen opposition. The people were
enslaved right from the start. The practical reality is that we the people are
ruled through a revolving door of power relations among individuals. The
executive branch possesses the power to act and command. It is smaller and more
united than the legislative. It will gradually assume dictatorial power, with
legislative in the role of rubber stamp. When the chief executive issues orders,
what can Congress do? What would it want to do, since its members are being fed
from the same trough, profiting from the same wars?
Organizations built solely on power relationships have great scope for
destruction. Those who aspire to power tend to be overly aggressive, rapacious,
cruel, opportunistic, manipulative and violent. They are willing to gamble the
lives and fortunes of those whom they rule. They exhibit an attenuated moral
conscience.
The trail toward progressively increasing power leads ultimately to the person
who regulates others, but is not himself regulated. The fatal design error is
monopoly of force acting from behind the shield of Sovereign Immunity. The
following observations are drawn from the works of Michael Rozeff published by
LewRockwell.com.
The political game is a game of power relations among individuals. Politics is
about getting and using power. Power deals with force and taking. Like other
human drives, power is motivated by personal gain. Gain is measured by increase
of power and wealth. Politics is always about taking from some and giving to
others. Politics leads to theft. Politics becomes theft itself.
Those who have power seek more power. Once a power structure is created, such as
a State, it will tend to increase its power through the cumulative power drive
of its agents. Power corrupts and will increase the desire for more. Since power
corrupts, it tends to attract the corruptible. Even if one or a few men near the
top become satisfied, there are many men in the State clawing for more power, so
the game will not change.
Any balance of power in the competitive situation will be only temporary.
Individual power-seekers will be constantly using every advantage and
opportunity to move toward the dominant position. Therefore, politics generates
concentrated centralization of power.
The American presidency has such immense concentrated power ? of destruction
? as to be almost incomprehensible. He has nuclear weaponry sufficient to
destroy vast stretches of earth and perhaps mankind itself. In this sense, the
president owns us, or at least has an option on our lives. It is his choice we
live or die.
Given the demonstrated psychopathic tendencies of these men, we face a
terrifying situation. These men have proven themselves to be far more
destructive, and hence far more dangerous than all the "terrorists" put
together. It amazes me that our psychological state of denial is so deeply
conditioned that we do not forthwith change our system.
The State has monopoly of power, which means it has control. Ordinary citizens
have no control. Operating the machinery of State as it commits atrocious crimes
are people who have names and addresses. They operate from behind the shield of
sovereign immunity, which is only an abstract legal fiction in which we have
placed our belief. It is amazing how few are the men who control the destiny of
our planet, compared to how many are we.
The State is a mind game. Our survival requires that we wake up to it and come
out of it.
The United States Is of No Authority Except Through Naked Force
The following is abstracted from The Voluntaryist, No.129 and extended to my
arguments. The traditional Hopi argue that the US government has no authority
over them because the Hopi never signed a treaty "acknowledging the US
government's right of existence." The traditionalists refuse to file any land
claims with the government because "we will not ask a white man, who came to us
recently, for a piece of land that is already ours and has been ours since time
immemorial." Dan Katchongva in 1951, "We want a right to live as we please, as
human beings. We want a right to worship as we please and have our own land. We
don't want someone to plan our lives for us, issue us rations, social security
or any other dole."
George Yamada wrote, "Self-determination is sovereignty of self-rule.
Self-determination means that a people have the sovereign right tom determine
and carry out their own destiny without any authority to say whether their acts
are good for them or not. Under self-determination a people have the right to
make their own mistakes and be accounted for them. The US cannot give
self-determination to the Hopi. All it can do is get out of the way. For the
truth is, the Hopi want to run their own lives."
A meeting of Elders (August 1955) recorded, "The laws of the Great Spirit must
be followed even though they might conflict with other political laws. All
instructions of the Great Spirit come from the seed of one basic instruction:
You must not kill. You must love your neighbor as yourself. From this one
commandment, to respect and revere life, come all the other commandments: to
tell the truth, to share with others, to live together in mutual support, to
take care of our children and old people, the sick and strangers, friends and
enemies, to abstain from intoxicants and adultery, not to cheat, steal or
covet." In this way the Hopi strive to live according to ideals of peace and
cooperation.
Years ago I worked briefly with the Hopi on an agricultural program called The
Planting Stick Project. I felt a deep respect for them and I admire their spirit
of peaceful resistance.
Like the Hopi, I have not freely entered into a contract granting the American
State any authority over my life whatsoever.
A thought experiment: suppose I had been born into a family of slaves. By that
accident of birth, have I assigned my right to life and my free will to the
slave master? If not, then he holds me by force only. Is this morally valid? Is
it not my right to try to escape at first chance? Must I ask his permission to
escape, and get my documents stamped? Or, suppose I had been born into a family
whose profession was robbery and murder. By this birth have I committed myself
to support robbery and murder? Is there any moral or contractual obligation to
remain with that family and suffer the consequences of a life of crime? Must I
seek permission of the patriarch to make my escape? Can he rightfully demand
identification and travel documents before I am free to move away?
It Is Impossible for the State to Disassociate from Evil
Even in its most equitable form, it is impossible for government to disassociate
itself from evil. Furthermore, unless the right to ignore the State is
recognized, its acts make of citizens accessories to crime.
The greatest danger to our liberty comes from the lawmakers. Every possible law
that can be made by lawmakers must give to some more liberty than the law of
nature (the law of equal justice) gives them ? and more liberty than is
consistent with the natural and equal liberty of other persons ? or else such
law must take from some persons some portion of that liberty which the law of
nature gives to every human being.
Therefore, every law that can be made by lawmakers must be a violation of the
natural rights and liberty of one or more persons.
Thus the very concept of a law-making government is in direct conflict with our
liberty. The only way men can preserve their liberty is not to have any
law-making government at all.
The State Does Not Recognize the
Natural Right of a Man to His Own Life
Once it is conceded that any man or body of men have any right to make laws of
their own invention ? and compel other men to obey them ? then every vestige of
man's natural an rightful liberty is denied.
If any of these natural rights may be taken from him by other men, all of them
may be taken. Unless all a man's natural rights are inviolable by lawmakers,
none of them are. There is not one single human right which the US government
recognizes as inviolable. It takes men's lives, liberty and property whenever
its own purpose is thereby served. All this goes to prove that the government is
not voluntarily established by the people for protection of their rights. It is
rather a government of robbers and tyrants who claim to own the right to dispose
of the people at the usurper's pleasure.
A Shameful Disgrace Upon Each Other
The following is adapted from Carl Watner, who says better than I can,
Historical Perspective in Support of Stateless Society
Let's see if things have changed since the times of Pierre Joseph Proudhon, the
French anarchist writing at about the same time as America's Henry David
Thoreau.
I ask you, does this not describe the present day America of the Patriot Act
and the Military Commissions Act and warrantless surveillance without probable
cause and suspension of habeas corpus? Some may argue that it is "voluntary
servitude," but it is not voluntary with me.
We Cannot Escape Our Responsibility
As noted in Proudhon, and extending further back ? at least to the ancient
Egyptians ? the nature, character, volition, intent and morality of government
does not change across time. Only the tools and techniques adapt to changing
circumstance and capability.
The State is no more than the mechanism through which cycles of violence are
perpetuated by individual persons whose corrupted minds are drawn to Power and
domination.
The tools and techniques now in play are of such awesome power as to call into
question the continued existence of the human species. I have heard of no weapon
designed by man that has never been employed. So-called decent, civilized
democracies fire-bombed Dresden, atom-bombed Hiroshima, napalmed millions of
civilians in Vietnam and Cambodia.
The weaponry now available to the mindless madness of Power freezes the
imagination into apathetic fear. And we who participate in democracies approve
of this by our votes ? all candidates are meaningless choices from the
Establishment. And after we have voted for it, we democratic citizens pay for
it. It is us. We cannot escape our responsibility.
The revolution we now face is not of a society, or a government, or a State ? it
is a planetary revolution of survival of the human race. If we do not abolish or
abandon the State as a human institution, it will destroy us.
For further discussion of these ideas, see
www.freeofstate.org, where the emphasis is on anarchy. Which simply means
self-rule and not rule by a central outside authority. Depending upon the moral
fabric of its participants, it could bring to an end the organized criminal
violence of the Corporate Warfare State.
Since the State is intrinsically evil due to the ethical flaw of its
intention, design and as-built structure, it seems to me that the only way to be
non-cooperative with it is to abandon it altogether. Certainly, the State is
utterly irredeemable.
Although this job of reclaiming self-ownership and self-rule is difficult, it
can be done. Guidance ? and perhaps inspiration ? can be found in Voluntary
Simplicity (Elgin); Forest Farming (Douglas and Hart); The One Straw Revolution
(Fukuoka); Blessed Unrest (Hawken); Gandhi's Hind Swaraj (Ananthu); The Way
(Goldsmith), plus nearly all of the works of E.F. Schumacher, Thich Naht Hanh,
and Wendell Berry.
May you live long, live free.
Jeff Knaebel [send him mail]
is an expatriate American domiciled in India since 1995. He formerly practiced
as a registered professional engineer, having been trained at Cornell Univ. and
the Colorado School of Mines. Visit his
website.
Copyright ? 2008
LewRockwell.com
--
When one thinks of it, the official color of collectivist evil is not Marxist
red or fascist black; it is bureaucratic gray. Evil makes plentiful use of
banners drenched in red or saturated in black, of course. But its real work is
carried out within the warrens of official bureaucracy, with the eager help of
normal, upstanding people who crave the safe anonymity of cooperation, and don't
have the courage to make themselves conspicuous by naming officially approved
evil for what it is.
--William Grigg
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